tag: swarm computing

Bill Gates, in a 2006 Scientific American article, described his vision of the future as, "A robot in every home."
It's difficult to project that far ahead with technology, though. Since then, wireless has come a long way. So have microelectronics—nearly 24 orders of magnitude if you use Moore's Law. So the robot conceived in 2006 is now more like a gaggle of Internet dust particles that r... » read more